Saturday, July 9, 2011

"in admiring the virtues of the saints, we are only admiring the virtues of Jesus Christ."

"In his apostles [Christ] gazes upon his zeal and his love for the salvation of souls; in the martyrs he gazes upon his patience, his sufferings and his grievous death; in the hermits he sees his obscure and hidden life; in the virgins he admires his stainless purity, and in all the saints his limitless love; so that in admiring the virtues of the saints, we are only admiring the virtues of Jesus Christ."

The Curé d'Ars, as quoted by George William Rutler, in his Saint John Vianney: the Curé d'Ars today (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1988), 29-30.